Ok… I have to be quick this morning… I have Church in about twenty minutes and after that I really must get home and read.
Our book club – The bookies meets on Tuesday of this week. We are reading The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton and I am really excited because I have wanted to read this one… it is 552 pages…
and…
I started it last night.
OK – SHHHHHH!!!!!! Keep you voices down!
I know – I know…..
I should have started it earlier, I should have been working on it all month and finished early…
but…
I didn’t.
Now here I am on the eve of the eve of the eve of our Book Club and I am going to have to power read the next two days.
*gulp*
I have a big awards event tonight I am helping with and tomorrow I work a short day but have a meeting at 2 pm and a group meeting at 6:30 pm. Reading this book is going to be hit and miss for time…. but…
I must do it.
I want to do it.
Can I do it???
Has this ever happened to you?
Were you ever supposed to have a book read for a book meeting or for a discussion of some sort and had to scramble at the last days?
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Oh fortunately you will really want to read right through this book!
And yes, I’ve done the same!!! I’m sure we all have! :–)
Thanks Jill…. this falls back tot he too many books so little time thing doesn’t it? GAH! 😀
No, of course not, Sheila! I’m always on top of everything and never have to do anything at the last minute! (If you believe that, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.)
How much is that bridge Bonnie?
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good luck stella, Hope you’ll finish it on time
What you wrote above reminds me the deadline of many school project. Sometimes I could catch up but most of them were failed.
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I have to catch up on this one Aleetha…. I will figure out time to get it read. 😀
You can do eeeeeet!
Thanks Jill….. I am cuing the Rocky theme and massaging my temples in preparation….. 😀
Good luck!
Thanks! 😀
Oh, my, that takes me back to college and cramming for exams! That’s what it must feel like…and, of course, I’m sure, I must have done that at one time or another, but I’m usually so TOGETHER! LOL
Good luck!
I had this happen a few times last year with the addition of the “book intake”. I need to stop procrastinating on the Bookies reads and do it. I first tell myself I do not want to start too soon because it will be a distant memory by the time we review…. then I am in the middle of a different book so I want to finish that one first and then… well, here we are.
Good luck with that!
I haven’t had that happen with a book (I’m not in a book club), but it regularly happened with my school/college work! Hehe.
Thanks Nikki-ann! I will take all the support I can get 🙂
Good luck, Sheila! As a matter of fact, two years ago I read this book in 2 days because of school. It was then I realized that if the English language is simple I can easily read 50 pages in an hour:-P
NIce! I needed that encouragement Elida! I can do that too if I can have no interruptions. I think that is my biggest “opportunity”…. I have a teen in the house and that causes interruptions in my reading flow.
Ah, sounds like me, I tend to read my Book Club books right before we meet, so they are fresh in my mind and that gets me into pickles sometimes accompanied by late night reading and day of cramming!
Yes – that is exactly it Elisabeth….. when I pulled it off my shelf I was like “whoa… I forgot it was that big!”
the only thing I really let go to the last minute is my ironing. I find I want to wear a favorite top and really meant to iron it, then it’s a scramble to get the iron out.
As far as books go, my intention to read a book a week often gets put to the back burner with a thousand and one excuses, then I’m pushing on the weekend to finish so I can excitedly start my new one.
I avoid the iron at all costs Diana – almost all my shirts with the exception of a couple minorities are non wrinkle types 😀
I have no book club woes on this one, but it sounds like my entire college career. Procrastinate and then scramble to finish. 🙂
LOL Trisha! 😀
Oh man! You better focus!
I know Reagan – I know. I am wondering how late I can stay up tonight…. if I can average 50 pages an hour and if I read from 10 – midnight tonight…. GAH! That’s only 200 pages…..
Must find more time!!!
My suggestion is to enjoy the book-I loved this book-read it at your own pace it is worth the read.
Thanks Esme – I do plan to get this read and I am hopeful to be done by the time of book club but I also want to make sure I enjoy the book.
This is so my error….
GAH!
Good luck, Sheila!!!
Thanks Rebecca!
Do you have time to take the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Dynamics course? ROTFL!!!
Good luck, sugar!
Good idea Beth….. could I have that surgically implanted into my brain while I sleep? LOL 😀
Yes, I have done it as well, but since I am not telling on you, don’t tell on me! 😉
You got it Nise… it will be our secret! 😉
As an English Lit Major and History major in College this happened to me a lot.
Procrastination…… I need to break that habit Patricia!
Hmmm…one thought – do any of your book group members read your blog? LOL
I have done this before and with my book group. I just confessed that I didn’t get through with it, but I’d continue on after the meeting. Fortunately, I’m one of those people who sometimes peeks at the end of the book or doesn’t mind spoilers. Once, I didn’t even read the book at all!! And I was the moderator. Long story, but it all went OK.
LOL – yes they do Kay and I fully expect them to bust me on this 🙂
If I don’t make it Kay I don’t mind them discussing it in front of me as that is my fault 🙂
Unfortunately I have been in your shoes. I finished People of the Book on the day of the book discussion just hours before. I’ve also had to speed read a book I was supposed to lead the discussion on (thankfully I finished that one and at least it was fresh in my mind). For one book discussion, only the leader finished the book (One Hundred Years of Solitude). I procrastinated but I think if I’d started it at the beginning of the month I still wouldn’t have finished. It just wasn’t my kind of book. Good luck with your book! I’ve heard good things about Kate Morton’s books.
LOL I have done that too….. I had to scramble to look up questions on line for the discussion. “blush:
everyone in a book club has done that,,,just a shame you did it with the big book!
it is worth reading….she’s a great writer!!
I am enjoying it Diana and I think I will have some afternoon time today to read as well so I should come in under the wire 🙂
More often than I like..usually with a review book that is scheduled for a certain day. Good luck! 😀
Thats it Staci – review books that are due on a certain day are the ones that I need to just start reading earlier and writing my review to go live on my review day.
My lips are sealed!
GAH! LOL!
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I have a bad habit of starting books too late when I need to have them done by a certain time. I wait to read the Harry Potter books until just before the movie comes out. I have finished 2 the night before seeing the movie, and Book 6 I was only 2/3 of the way through. There are no deadlines now other than those I set for myself.
Pat, I carried my Harry Potter book to this last movie Pat – I have a picture of me in the theater with the book. TRUE STORY 🙂
I always end up taking too many books out of the library that can’t be renewed because of holds. So I usually end up reading nonstop for a couple days before the due date. I hate returning books unread. I feel like I’ve wasted the librarians time. Everything in my life is like this, thought. 🙂
I hope to get better at time/book management Steph 🙂
Oh yeah this used to happen to me in college! I want to read this one so I hope the mad scramble is worth it – good luck!
Thanks Amused!
This happened to me last year with The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I ended up reading for hours the night before and about ten hours straight the day of (I was lucky my husband was working from home that day, and that he didn’t get upset about me having my nose in a book all day). I ended up finishing the book about two minutes before I had to leave for book club. Thankfully the others in our group leave their reading to the last minute also, so they are pretty understanding.
I hope you are able to finish it!
I am working hard on getting it done… I wouldn’t feel so bad except that I have done this twice recently where time just got away from me….. my book club is going to behead me if I keep this up 🙂
OMG yes that has happened to me with a few book tours either I have gotten the date wrong or there was a mix up and I have had to scramble the night before to read the whole book. So now any tour books I try and read as soon as they come in to avoid this.
Good luck I hope you get it done before your meet up.
I do that too. I have a calendar now Cindy so I can write down when things are due…. the trick is to look at the calendar occasionally to see what is coming up 😀
This is the story of my life with my book club! I can so relate!
SIgh….. I have to do better Kathleen – I love my book club!
Well, my book club was supposed to meet tonight and we had to postpone because of the weather. Part of me was glad, because I haven’t finished the book.
We just met Kathy – there was another girl who did not finish as well. It was a BIG book!
Hope you rescheduled your meeting soon and you have time to finish the book 🙂
LOL!! This happens to me all the time! I always want to read the book closer to our meeting date, so that the story is fresher in my mind. Then, come to find out, I don’t plan accordingly or something comes up, and I am left reading late on book club eve . . . or simply not finishing it! So glad to hear I am not alone! 🙂
That is exactly it Tif! 😀 No, read the comments here – we are not alone 😀